Bright Birthday Floral Basket - Simon Says Stamp Beautiful Moments Release Blog Hop Day 2

Good morning! Excited today to be joining in on Day 2 of an incredible blog hop to celebrate the BRAND NEW Beautiful Moments Release from Simon Says Stamp! Make sure to check out all the inspiration with this new release AND link up your creations as you receive your orders HERE in the Gallery created just for this release! And check out the graphic below to receive a FREE not-yet-released adorable "Clover Shaker Sentiments" die set FREE with any purchase from the Beautiful Moments Release products (will be automatically added to card!) through March 1, 2026 - while supplies last (offer ends at 11:59 PM EDT)!!!

I have a basket of bold and beautiful blooms to share today! I love how this color palette turned out!

I started off by die cutting the basket from Country Basket Bouquet from white cardstock, and layering it all together. Then I cut out a TON of the beautiful florals from a mix of Cotton Candy, Creamsicle, Lipstick, Sage, and Dark Chocolate Cardstocks and adhered the centers and two piece flowers together. I die cut one of the Eyelet Layer Frames from Cotton Candy cardstock, and then a smaller one of the Nested Stitched Rectangles from Cream cardstock and layered them together, then added the basket with liquid adhesive over the top. I love the soft contrast of white and cream cardstocks! And then - I went to town adding ALL the florals and greenery to the basket, tucking them in and around, and adhering with liquid glue. Once I was happy with the arrangement, I stamped and added a sentiment from Basket of Blooms, and a secondary sentiment from Reverse Beautiful Friend sentiment strips, die cut with EZ Strips Banners die. A few Mandarin Dazzling Gems finish this card off! Here is a closer look at the final card:

GIVEAWAY INFO:

Simon Says Stamp will be giving a $25 gift certificate to their online store at each stop along the hop - so make sure and leave a comment before you leave for a chance to win! Winners will be announced next Wednesday on the Simon Says Stamp Blog.

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Nina-Marie Trapani

Heather Hoffman (you are here)

Suzy Plantamura

Cathy Zielske

Jennifer McGuire

Laura Bassen

Amy Rysavy

Mindy Eggen

Miriam Pranter

Alberto Gava

Kath Stewart

Betsy Green

Mary Reiner

Nicki Baxley

Savannah O'Gwynn

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Spring Framed Bunny Art - Simon Says Stamp Beautiful Moments Release

Good morning! I'm back today with something different than a card, still using the BRAND NEW Beautiful Moments Release from Simon Says Stamp! I thought it would be fun to get out of the box, so to speak, and create something different and fun! I love how it turned out!!!

I started off by stamping the adorable images from Special Friend on watercolor paper, and coloring in with soft watercolors. I love the vintage storybook feel that these images give me! Once they dried, I die cut them all out and set aside. I pulled out a Ranger Mini Framed Panel and added some color and texture to it by using a Vintage Photo distress ink cube to swipe directly on the edges of the frame, and then spritzed well with Fossilized Amber spritz which has a lovely bit of sparkle to it. For the background, I used Ivory cardstock for the base, then layered over several pieces of Desert Storm cardstock with a torn edge. I then adhered it inside the framed panel, and then started tucking my images into the scene. I stamped a tiny bee and it's little trail onto the background, and added the sentiment at the top. I embellished with a few colors of the adorable new Easter Eggs embellishment mix, some sparkly Nuvo Blizzard glitter drops on parts of the scene, and then added accents here and there with a white gel pen! Here is a closer look at this fun framed piece of art:

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Buckets of Blooms - Simon Says Stamp Beautiful Moments Release

Good morning! I'm back today with a couple more cards using the BRAND NEW Beautiful Moments Release from Simon Says Stamp! I'm obviously feeling ready for spring and ALL the flowers - in case you didn't already notice! Today's colors are bold, bright, and happy!

The main set I used is the Wildflower Bucket die. It was super relaxing to just sit and die cut tones of flowers, then assemble them all together. I used a mix of Doll Pink, Cotton Candy, Sunshine, Lemon Chiffon, Green Leaf, and Soft Navy to cut the flowers and greenery. The pail I cut from some metallic cardstock in my stash that I had gotten with an older Simon Says Stamp card kit - but couldn't find on the store anymore, so I have a feeling it's not around anymore unfortunately! But I linked up a couple silver metallic cardstock options below that would be a good substitute! The handle was cut from Smoke and Black cardstocks. I used the new Fanfare Embossing Folder on some white cardstock, and tore the edge to add a little border at the bottom to ground the scene, and added the buckets before tucking in TONS of flowers and greenery into each of them. Finished off with sentiments from the new Reverse Beautiful Friend sentiment strips! Here is a closer look at the two of these:

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Birthday Window Flowers - Simon Says Stamp Beautiful Moments Release

Hello! I'm super excited to be stopping by with my first card with the BRAND NEW Beautiful Moments Release from Simon Says Stamp! I used a sweet little set that is near and dear to my heart, because my daughter, Katie, designed it! I so love how it turned out, and had fun creating this card with it!

The set is called Budding Blossoms, and is part of the Rainbow Splash collection. It is a tiny set, but has so many fun possibilities! I started off by stamping lots of images from the set on watercolor paper, then coloring everything in with Altenew watercolors in a bright, happy, spring color palette. I die cut all the images out once they had fully dried. Next, I grabbed an older die - Window - and cut several from black cardstock. I blended a couple bits of Butter ink on my card base, then layered over the top of those with Tin Tile stencil and a bit of Zest ink for some tone on tone texture. I layered the windows over that with liquid glue, then arranged all my die cut and watercolored images with foam adhesive. I added sentiments in fun angles, stamping with my MISTI for perfect placement, then added a few little bees and ladybugs, and finished off with a few coordinating Butter Dazzling Gems for sparkle! I had some leftover bits and pieces, so I decorated a little coordinating envelope to use them all up! Here are lots more photos of this finished card and envelope set:

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Fluttering Hey Friend - Simon Says Stamp

Good morning! There is a new release coming tomorrow from Simon Says Stamp - but I'm sneaking in one last card for the month with some previous releases! I love a crisp outline image, and a bit of soft stenciling is super fun as well!

I started off by doing some soft ink blending in the bottom right corner using the Tin Tile stencil and a bit of Ballerina ink. Next, I stamped the large main image from Make My Heart Flutter so that it went a bit off the edges of the cardstock and overlapped on the area where the stenciling faded out. I stamped a dainty sentiment from the same stamp set, and rounded a corner of that panel off, then mounted with Big Momma foam adhesive on a cardbase created with coordinating Spellbinders Blush cardstock that also had the same corner rounded off. I stamped the extra two little butterflies in black and die cut, adhering with liquid glue and leaving the wings floating free for dimension, then finished off with a few coordinating Glitter Enamel drops! Here are more photos of this finished card: 

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